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...spawned admirers - how could it not? - but not imitators. No other multinational grouping - not Mercosur in Latin America, not asean in Southeast Asia - has anything like the powerful institutions of the Union. Europe's history and geography, it turns out, are unique. Its nations are small enough and close enough to understand each other and have shared values; but at the same time, all of Europe lived through such horrors in the 20th century that its nations' postwar leaders needed little convincing of the virtues of cooperation. In Europe, nationalism has a bad name; in much of the rest...
Faced with economic downturns, low literacy rates, and a lack of publication opportunities for Latin American authors, Javier Barilaro and Milagros Saldarriaga did what many artists would do; they decided to put their talents to work for social change. But instead of painting or sculpture, they chose a less orthodox medium: cardboard. In a week-long series of events in the Center for Government and International Studies sponsored by the Cultural Agents Initiative, a Harvard-based group promoting social change through art in developing countries, Barilaro and Saldarriaga discussed how they turned trash into publishing houses, and how their projects...
There were moments during President Bush's weeklong Latin American tour, which ended Wednesday, when he looked like a man at an anger-management session. Five years ago, Bush turned his back on Latin America - petulantly disengaging from issues that mattered most to Latin capitals like immigration reform and U.S. agriculture subsidies - because most of its nations refused to back his Iraq invasion. Since then, much of the region has turned leftward and anti-U.S. Bush was reminded about this at each stop of his five-nation tour - and each time his initial reaction was to hunch his shoulders...
...then the President would seem to catch himself, count to 10 and concede that Latin Americans did have some legitimate gripes about things like "social justice" and that the U.S. could do more to address them. As a result, while Bush's trip south of the border wasn't exactly a triumph, it wasn't exactly a failure either. More important, it showcased Latin America as a sort of testing ground for the Bush Administration's new "reality-based" foreign policy - a willingness to acknowledge that diplomacy can be more effective than domination, and that even in weaker regions like...
...there was one thing that hinted at the potential success of that strategy, it was the fevered reaction of the de facto leader of Latin America's resurgent left, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. For years, the Administration has been falling into Chavez's traps - usually by taking the bait whenever he goes into one of his intemperate anti-Bush tirades: Chavez calls Bush a "donkey," the Administration calls Chavez a menace, Chavez's poll numbers rise. But this time Chavez looked a bit like the dupe: rather than ignoring Bush's fence-mending foray, Chavez frantically crisscrossed the continent, heckling...